knock-kneed

• “As someone who is slightly knock-kneed, getting older and finding my hips less tolerant of “mashing,” I was thinking a wider stance might be more natural in my case.”

  Ask Nick: Flying with bikes and shoe questions

• “All his art is self-portraiture while his pseudo-radical groupuscule, the toothsomely named Party of Dynamic Erection, is camouflage for the knock-kneed terror that its members – Wick, Irwin and Nipple Warner – all feel in the presence of women.”

  The Guardian: Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie

• “Think Buenos Aires, runaway Nazis, giant dice in the opening shot and musical numbers – all grafted on to a three-way melodrama of outrageous sexual provocation and emotional blackmail that's played like a minuet by scheming adventuress Hayworth and her two knock-kneed beaus itinerant gambler Glenn Ford and scarfaced casino boss George Macready on a gigantic, lavishly appointed set that amounts to a fantasia on mid-century Hollywood's notions of Latin-Americanness.”

  The Guardian: Gilda is pure, undistilled Rita Hayworth

• “Notice that the round muscle-pads on the inner sides that make most women appear knock-kneed are missing.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “As a result, women's knees are more likely to collapse inward, in a knock-kneed position, and suffer injury.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New Steps to Help Prevent Knee Injuries in Teen Sports

• “In the same way, the arch of its foot and its leg bones were well suited for human-like upright walking—with a slightly knock-kneed gait—while its heel and shin bone were more like those of a chimpanzee, better configured for climbing trees.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution

• “Miraculous, until you realise that the knock-kneed, squinty-eyed prince was one of the most recognisable men in France.”

  The Guardian: Classic France: the insiders' guide

• “While the world marched along in practised synchrony I was the one who chose to lag behind, knock-kneed and slightly out of step.”

  Fictionaut: My Other Mother is a Ferrari

• “Between the author's name, the book's title and the cover art, which features a black woman with red lips, a long weave and a knock-kneed pose in fishnet stockings -- you pretty much know what kind of story is inside without reading the back cover.”

  The Huffington Post: Demetria Irwin: 'Urban Fiction' I Actually Like?

• “Here, with time to settle, his straight driving was increasingly imperious, in particular off the powerfully built England Under-19 all-rounder Luke Fletcher (a slightly knock-kneed Flintoff-style figure), who bowled with encouraging aggression and bounce.”

  The Guardian: Jaik Mickleburgh finds range to give Essex edge over Nottinghamshire

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